A 'mark' is an intended victim of a swindle. If somebody swindles
or cheats you one time, then it's shame on him. If somebody swindles
you a second time, then it's shame on you.
All religions in the world believe in two fundamental laws. These
two legal principles make peace, freedom and prosperity possible:
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Keep your promises (i.e., do all you have agreed to do) - the basis of
contract law
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Do not steal other people's property or harm their physical
well-being - the basis of tort law and some criminal law.
Confucius said it like this: "Do not do to others what you
would not want them to do to you."
Jesus Christ said it like this:
"Do to others as you would have them do to you." (Matthew
7:12)
To the degree that people in a society obey these two laws, you
have peace, freedom, prosperity and creativity channeled for the
betterment of mankind. To the degree that people in a society disobey
these laws you have crime, war, oppression, economic trouble, and
wasted creativity.
Sadly, almost all governments think they are allowed to break both
of these two basic laws. Western civilization calls this the Divine
Right of Kings. East Asian civilization calls this the Mandate of
Heaven. In either case, it's a recipe for trouble - corruption,
excessive taxation, poverty, misallocation of resources and
mismanagement of people. Only a fear of an eternal God and a fear of
eternal accountability to these two fundamental laws will keep a
person from violating them.
Gunpowder gave power to
bankers
Not long after men invented guns to
fight wars, men learned that a single man with a gun can defeat a
hundred men with swords. They also learned that the army with the best
and biggest guns would most likely win. European colonialization
throughout the world would never have happened had they not learned to
use gunpowder (which was actually invented by the Chinese.) European
colonialization only stopped when the rest of the world acquired their
own modern weapons and could adequately defend themselves and throw
off foreign domination.
Early on in the game, though, some clever European moneylenders and
bankers learned that men in leadership would do almost anything to win
wars, and that included giving away power to make laws in exchange for
loans to manufacture weapons. Men will even go into debt to win wars.
It has happened many times in history. Today, the coup of the bankers
is complete. Most people don't know it, but bankers and their friends
now control the entire industrial world. The keys to the process were
gunpowder and debt. The reason people don't know this is that the
bankers don't want people to know it. If you don't know who the mark
is, then you're the mark!
World domination through
debt
King Solomon once wrote, "The
borrower is slave to the lender." (Proverbs 22:7) Thus, as modern
weaponry advanced, government leaders became more and more willing to
go into debt to finance their wars. They were willing to trade their
freedom and power for the short-term thrill of winning wars, and
bankers have been more than willing to help them enjoy their thrills.
In most wars today, the winners are actually the bankers and their
friends.
How do they do it? First, they have convinced all governments to
give them a magic checkbook. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to legally
print up your own money? All central banks do this today. There is no
longer any country in the world that has a currency based on gold,
silver or something of tangible value. All currencies are based on
debt and promises to repay in the future, and to keep the system
going, the debt and the promises must continually grow. This causes
inflation, and the purchasing power you lose to inflation goes into
the pockets of the bankers. It's a great fraud. Some call it a Ponzi
scheme - an investment operation that pays returns to investors from
money paid by subsequent investors rather than from profit. It works
until people stop putting in funds fast enough; then it collapses and
the game is over.
Second, they make money by charging interest on money they don't
have. Thanks to legalized fractional reserve banking, bankers have
been collecting loads of money for a long time from borrowers.
Wouldn't it be nice to collect interest on money you created out of
nothing? The banking cartel has been doing this for a long time. It's
another great fraud. Inflation and fractional reserve banking together
are the greatest swindle of all financial history. Remember, if you
don't know who the mark is, then you're the mark!
Third, they gain whenever markets crash and most people are forced
to sell at low prices - guess who's buying then? Some people speculate
that a lot of market events are planned.
How can we get out of this
mess?
We can't. All governments and
central banks are now controlled by a little-known private banking
cartel. They have been stealing from you and the whole world through
the printing of fiat money (government decreed legal tender not based
on gold or silver or other items of tangible value), and this has
given them cash to buy out most of the world's governments, education
systems, legal systems, corporations, media and other institutions of
influence.
Is there any hope?
Yes! We cannot change the system, but we can
avoid being swindled like most people. We can also avoid the anger and
frustration that comes from being swindled. Here are some related
suggestions: